This morning on The Situation Room, CNN broke news on the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling limiting the ability of lower courts to generate nation-wide injunctions. CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid spent her whole segment on how monumental the ruling was, drawing to the conclusion that Republicans and the “conservative super majority” were to be feared.
Reid tried her best to hide her discontent with the ruling, but she couldn’t help constantly harping on the political ideology of the majority opinion:
Now I will say, these nationwide injunctions, this is a bipartisan concern, these have plagued every modern president. But, because President Trump does so much through executive action, he has faced the greatest number of these nationwide injunctions, so he and his Republican allies here on Capitol Hill, they have been railing against these. This is a pet issue for them, and now the conservative super majority siding with President Trump and his Republican allies to limit this power from judges. A huge decision.
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